Immortal and Martial Dual Cultivation Chapter 1114: The Black Sea of Bitterness

The person the statue depicted had a dignified expression with a smile on his face. Each hand showed a different hand seal, one for the lotus flower hand seal and the other for a mudra hand seal. These were both famous Buddhist hand seals.

[TL Note: The lotus flower hand seal, just picture the gesture without the flower: https://i2.kknews.cc/RsSkQ3byz9ZIPtnlx4J6F6y89iU-BEpU9SMO5Q4/0.jpg.]

[TL Note: Most images of the Manjushri Bodhisattva have him holding a flaming sword in one hand, which is the sword of awareness that cuts through all delusion, and the stem of a lotus bearing a scroll (or just the scroll directly) in the other. Unfortunately, the author doesn’t go into sufficient detail to identify the mudra hand seal, but one of the few depictions of the Manjushri Bodhisattva that doesn’t include the sword uses the Varada mudra, which looks like an extended tongue: http://www.wheeloftheyear.com/images/2004/manjusri.JPG]

One hand seal represented expounding on Buddhist teachings, filling the mouth with words like water in the river and making flowers blossom everywhere.

One hand seal looked like it was holding a flower, smiling at the mundaneness of life and seeing through the bustling world to look at its void nature.

Nothing seemed wrong about this “Manjushri Bodhisattva” except for its face. When Xiao Chen saw it, he only smiled coldly. This face was not that of the Manjushri Bodhisattva but Zhuang Zhenghe’s.

Xiao Chen had a good memory. This loose cultivator that hounded him in the Heavenly Ruin Wasteland and reduced him to a sorry state left a deep impression on him.

What a good scheme, using the foundation that the Minor Leiyin Temple had laid to directly absorb the power of faith!

Xiao Chen pushed off the ground and flew to the roof beam. Then, he looked down while slowly opening the Heavenly Eye. He saw that after the many believers kowtowed in worship, their bodies gave off a formless green energy.

Then, like moths to a flame, this energy all gathered around the gold statue.

The smile on the statue becam

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